A student in Nicaragua is interesteed in doing a Ph.D in biomedical
biology in the U.S., Brazil, or Costa Rica.

Where can he/she find grants for such funding? Please include grants
to countries outside of the U.S.

Greetings!  I found biomedical research grants given by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute for Latin American countries including
Brazil.  From there was a link to GrantsNet where a user may join
free.  Their page stated "Welcome to GrantsNet, your one-stop resource
to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and
undergraduate science education. Through the support of HHMI and AAAS,
this service is completely free."

GrantsNet had a Graduate/Post Graduate search and an Undergraduate
search.  I checked "masters student" and "biology" and "individual"
and "Limit to awards without US citizenship requirements" in their
Graduate search after I signed up (a free service) from the main page.
 I also entered "biomedical biology" in the search box for text
search.  All those options were on the Graduate search page.  It
returned 56 possibilities.

Also, if your friend's field is related to Infectious Disease &
Vaccines, HIV/AIDS & TB or Reproductive & Child Health, try the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health site.

When you friend peruses these, he can try other search combinations as
well.  I hope this information is of assistance to him with securing
an educational grant as it was a very interesting subject to research.


SEARCH TERMS AND LINKS:

"international grants biomedical biology"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=international+grants+biomedical+biology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute news
http://www.hhmi.org/news/011502.html

GrantsNet - link from Hughes site 
http://www.grantsnet.org/

GrantsNet search page
http://www.grantsnet.org/search/srch_specify.cfm?global_indv_key=56760403&global_indv_type=pgm_public&global_pgm_levl=All&global_session_id=257593&pgm_levl=Grad

GrantsNet search for biomedical biology grants (results page)
http://www.grantsnet.org/search/srch_results.cfm?global_indv_key=56760403&global_indv_type=pgm_public&global_pgm_levl=All&global_session_id=257593


AAAS - link from GrantsNet site - American Association for the
Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org/


"international grants education biomedical biology"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=international+grants+education+biomedical+biology

Biology Grants and Grantmaking
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/bio/grants.html

Bill and Melinda Gates Global Health link
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/globalhealth/default.htm

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Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 21 Jul 2002 17:25 PDT

Greetings, and pardon me but I accidentally cut off the main
international grants programs site list:

"international biomedical grants"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=international+biomedical+grants

Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health
Sciences
http://www.nih.gov/fic/news/directory.html

International grant opportunities list
http://www.nih.gov/fic/news/DirectoryGrants.html


Good luck!

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Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 20 Sep 2002 06:41 PDT

Thank you for your rating of my research and, again, I hope you locate
the funding you desire.  Also, keep in mind that when you utilize the
Google Answers services in the future, you may ask for as many
clarifications as you need before closing the question with your
rating.  By requesting clarifications, the researcher will be able to
meet your needs in a more exact manner.

I was hoping to find resources that were a bit of the beaten track and
were more specifically oreinted to students in developing countries,
but then maybe there aren't that many out there. Another site that
others might want to look at,is the Community of Science
(www.cos.com).